A man captured footage of "a UFO" hovering over his neighbour's house.

John Nicholls, 45, was in bed watching TV with his wife, Maureen, 50, at 9pm on November 17 when he looked out the window and noticed an object in the sky.

John dismissed it as a meteor or a planet at first but says it started making "odd shapes and changing colours" - going from yellow to purple and white.

John got out of bed and filmed the unidentified object - that was "absolutely huge" - for a few minutes before he says it disappeared.

He said he didn't believe in aliens but after seeing the "UFO" they are both "convinced" they exist.